Out of the Mouth of Babes #10

Now I know it has been a while since I posted our Monday feature "Out of the Mouth of Babes" but between it being a miserable summer holidays here and a lack of routine the boys haven't actually come out with anything that I felt was post worthy.

Luckily, Home school is back and routine is restored and because of that it naturally came back.

This week we are concentrated on the things that James has pointed out.

With the evenings becoming milder James' Asthma has been playing up, subsequently he has started to have a cough.

James was mid coughing and then made a strange noise; this followed with him laughing quite loudly.

Me: "What are you laughing at?"
James: "Me. I was coughing and then I sneezed in the middle."
Me: "OK, did it feel funny and make you laugh?"
James: "No, it's just that I was Scoughing"
Me: "Scoughing??"
James: "Yes Daddy, when you cough and sneeze at the same time. You're Scoughing"

Now, I have never heard of this but I thought it made perfect sense really.

The next three have come out of our Home school lessons this week; James' first week doing it too!

We decided that we would learn about the Queen considering that she celebrated the fact that she was the longest reigning Monarch.

James decided that he would draw the Queens bed. He then coloured it in Pink.

Me: "Aw, that is lovely James. Do you think that the Queen would like a Pink bed?"
James: "I think the Queen fancies a bit of Pink"

(A little context here. He has a slight speech impediment normally. Yet, at this exact moment, very clearly, in a rather posh sounding voice, said the above. It felt very much that he should have ended it with a "wot wot, old chum")

Despite this I do like to think that the Queen does "fancy a bit of Pink", What do you think?

Completing our Numeracy activity came these two:


We spoke about the pictures, we examined and pronounced each word and focused on the starting phonic sound.

Me: "James, Which one is the odd one out?"
James: "Ball."
Me: "Why Ball?"
James: "Because the other two are animals"

Well he wasn't wrong in deciphering that. Maybe the book was wrong?

A few questions below and we found this:

Me: "James, which one is the odd one out?"
James: "The Mouse"
Me: "Why the Mouse?"
James: "Because we don't eat mouse"

I would like to take this opportunity to say that neither myself, or apparently his Mum, have never fed the boys Monkey's!